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Shannon Stirone

Shannon Stirone is a freelance writer who has written for Popular Science, Wired, The Atlantic, and The New Republic, among other places.

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HEAT SHIELD

How NASA's Parker Solar Probe Will 'Kiss the Sun'

The six-and-a-half-year journey will take it 20 million miles closer to the sun than any

Shannon Stirone

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RING AROUND SATURN

What’s Next for NASA’s Cassini Mission Space Explorers?

David Doody went from dreaming his rocket ship in his backyard was going to Saturn to actually directing Cassini toward the ringed planet. The mission is over. What happens now?

Shannon Stirone

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